eM Client 5

The Best Email Client for Windows

Check it out folks -> if you purchase eM Client 5 on BDJ today, you'll be eligible for a free upgrade to v6 when it is released in a couple of weeks!

Sure, everyone around you has pushed you into using an online email client, but you've tried and just want to go back to using a local client for your Windows system. But what do you do about that mountain of information that's now sitting in your old email account? Well, you experience the ultimate in smooth migration with today's discount software promotion, eM Client 5!

eM Client 5 lets you sync and import email, calendars, contacts, and more from Gmail, Yahoo, AOL, Hotmail, Outlook, and more. It doesn't matter how complex your email situation may be on another service, eM Client 5 can get you up and running in mere minutes. No more jumping back and forth between your old email client and your new one!

And just because you're giving up living in the cloud with respect to your email, it doesn't mean you have to give up good search functionality. That's right, eM Client 5 features a super fast search that lets you find any email, contact, or attachment in seconds!

Review Written by Derek Lee

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Sync and import email, calendars, contacts, and more from a variety of online email clients

Upgrades to future versions of the software will be free up to the next major version and minor versions thereafter. For versions after that, upgrades will require additional payment, which will be discounted.

Support is provided for 12 months after your purchase.

30 days return policy.

Review the Full License details for downloading and installing this software.

I got the lifetime upgrades, single user license for $40.-, the only thing that was strange, is that the license name is: "Cloudswave License".
See the license information here:
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As this will be read by eM Client stuff too, they can give information about the legitimacy of this reseller.

I am really happy with the programs futures and it is worth every cent, especially when you want to manage more than 2 e-mail accounts.
I highly recommend this product, after using Outlook and Thunderbird for a couple of years, I really needed some change that I have found in eM Client.

I'd just like all you out there stuck on Outlook with no alternative that meets your basic needs, THERE IS NOW AN ALTERNATIVE. EM Client offers about 80% of the functionality of Outlook 2003. Most users, desperate to desert Microsoft, will be able to compromise on the few functions that eM Client doesn't provide, hell, even later versions of Outlook, including 2013, don't have all the functionality of 2003.

I recently 'discovered' eM Client and made the switch. It's fast, has improved functionality, particularly in the area of multiple accounts, and a modern conceptual view of email management with an Outlook 2003 look and feel.

I can't emphasize enough how much this IS THE UPGRADE FOR OUTLOOK 2003. All users, except those with one or two email accounts, will need the paid for version. At 50% discount this is a steal. The Outlook 2003 features that I've noticed are missing:
* Can't customise toolbars or define buttons - but neither can Outlook 2013
* No access to Visual Basic

What it does have is:
* Rules that work
* Great multiple account integration
* Calendar system that looks good but I haven't been a user of calendars in the past. Integrates Google calendar.
* A familiar Outlook 2003 interface - not exactly the same but enough. (Some users may find this a turn off but I hate the modern Outlooks' interfaces.)
* Great support through the forum.

I really recommend this one. If anyone has questions about my personal experience with eM Client, leave them here and I'll answer what I can. I know I haven't used all features, nor do I intend to, but I'll share what I know.

James Evans1. Will installation of EM Client automatically configure to be my default email program? I do not want that to happen as I want to use my old program until I become familiar with EM Client.
2. Can EM Client import calendars, contacts, tasks, and especially emails from Chaos software's "Intellect" email/PIM program which I believe is also referred to as an email client.

I don't recall eM client automatically becoming the default email program. It's easy enough to change. My experience of moving my Outlook system to eM Client was that eM Client is very sensitive to users' needs. It doesn't jump in and take over; it consults the user.

I did a trial transfer to start with. Transfer everything but keep Outlook going while eM Client is checked out. I also changed the settings for POP servers so that emails were left on the server, leaving Outlook in control of deletions.

Contacts came across. I don't use tasks or calendars and so I'll leave that to others to comment on.

Gr3gwTo be honest I'm not that familiar with Thunderbird but I have used it. I looked at it shortly before I found eM Client and had rejected for reasons I can't recall. If I remember I'll let you know.

1. At first startup an eM Client dialog box opens and allows a choice between using the program as default or not, so it does not automatically takeover from a previous email program. Nice.
2. eM Client does not automatically import from Chaos Intellect email program. It only gave a choice of Outlook, Thunderbird, or skip auto import. It did not recognise Intellect. There is a free program, Mail Store, which may help with the import. I will report more if Mail Store does the job.
3. Intellect is an excellent program but it does not support drag and drop of email folders. One must create a new folder, highlight emails, drag them and drop, then delete the old folder. Not convenient if you have a lot of folders or tweak the folders often as I do.

Roderick NicolsonYes, but can it import rules from Outlook. I bought EM Client a short time back and despite calls for this (unless now) they haven't done it.
For that reason I was unable to use the version I bought.

I can't remember if eM Client imports Outlook rules. I'd be surprised if it did. There's no Visual Basic in eM Client.

The reason I had no rules to import was because Outlook (2003) had 'lost' my rules without telling me again, something it was prone to do periodically and was one of the reasons I wanted to get away from Outlook, The rules system in eM Client looks like rules in Outlook and is easy to set up. Thanks to Microsoft I'd lost all my rules and I was having to refine them anyway.

Gr3gwAnother bonus in eM Client is the embedded backup system. You can schedule your backups, saving the need to purchase an additional backup mechanism. Up until I found eM Client I had been planning to buy an Outlook backup program, one reason being the disappearing rules I mentioned in a previous post. But with the embedded backup mechanism, perhaps not quite as good as an Outlook third party solution, I could have bought eM Client at the special price.

In case you are wondering why I'm I'm so keen on advocating for eM Client, it is this: after years of wanting to get away from MS Outlook I think I have finally found a realistic replacement. As many of you will understand, my email system is very valuable to me and I want it to be in good hands with the functionality I have learned to appreciate (I pay tribute to Microsoft for all that is good in Outlook, it's just a pity they have not looked after it) and now that I have decided to move it to eM Client I want that company to succeed in order to protect my investment, not in money, but in time and effort cultivating my email system. A secondary reason is that I want to share the benefits that the product offers - an updated Office 2003 that is updated in the 2003 tradition.

Chris Roy JacksonCan eM Client import RULES from Outlook Express?
OR does anyone reading this know of any way to Export Rules from Outlook Express (technical or NOT; i.e. Copy from Registry ? [which KEYS])
Rules are very important... Especially when you have a few HUNDRED of them. I REALLY Don't want to have to re-Create all of them if I can Export (and/ or import) my existing Rules.
Since Microsoft removed the ability for Outlook Express to function in "Vista" (after I upgraded), I have suffered with WebMail rather than re-creating all of my rules.
eM Client looks like a great Client and I'm looking forward to trying it!

I'm not really in a position to comment on what rules can be imported. It looks like Thunderbird rules can be imported but no others - http://www.emclient.com/w...efault.htm. Hopefully a rep from eM Client will come into the forum and provide answers to these rules questions

Gr3gwHi Denius, I can't see Exchange mentioned in the documentation but from memory, and I may be wrong or out of date, but doesn't Outlook maintain a local copy of your exchange folder? Is it OST file. Can't wait for the eM Client rep to answer this.

Neil ShermanI use it as well as outlook. In may ways I prefer eM Client, but it has had its frustrations (far fewer than outlook). At the time I started to use it it wouldn't sync contacts unless you pay extra for the now discontinued Sync2eM product, I never was able to get Sync2eM to function and I never really did understand exactly what it was supposed to do. I assume that's no longer the case and contact and sync is fully built in to eM Client? It works fine with exchange. The other minor irritations are in setting up email accounts - it insists on spending a long time trying to figure out settings automatically. I think (but am not sure) that a recent update fixed that and allowed manual settings without having to wait a long time while it failed at guessing. One email account I've been unable to get to work with eM Client is at OneBox.com because they use an encrypted password setting that eM Client doesn't seem to support (Outlook and Thunderbird didn't have a problem). My only other complaint with it is if you keep a local copy of email and subsequently discontinue an email account, there is no way to see the old emails without having eM client keep trying to get new mail and giving error messages. You can disable the account but then the emails become invisible.

All said, I strongly recommend eM Client! It's easier and more intuitive to use than Thunderbird and is my favorite alternate to Outlook, especially if you have multiple email accounts.

Roderick NicolsonI think you'll find the reps strangely elusive when it comes to Outlook rules. I've tried getting info from them about this before but with no luck. My guess is they can't do it and so are following the policy of 'Out of mind out of sight'. I've not come across anyone on the internet yet who can do anything with the .rwz file for Outlook's rules.
Would help though if they'd just come clean about it. Then we'd all know where we stood and could make comprehensive decisions about which direction to take.

Jeff H.I have been using eM Client for a little over a year. I only wish I knew about eM Client sooner than that. Everything about it is perfect, at least for my needs. I have used several other email clients and they can't touch this one. Here are the ones I used:
Outlook 2003 and 2010: Very good and is considered the standard, but overkill for everyday email. Even saving an email was a hassle.
Thunderbird: It's OK, but the interface is ancient-looking, and you always need some plug-in to use it efficiently.
Windows Live Mail: Actually I like this email client. If em Client didn't exist, I would probably use WLM. But em Client is a bit better.
Gmail: Well, it's Gmail. But it's a web based client, so it is difficult to compare. I'm just not comfortable with Gmail. I'm not comfortable with Google, but that's another story.

eM Client is intuitive, easy to set up accounts, you can save emails in standard .eml format, contacts access easily, the calendar is super-easy to use, and the calendar syncs with your Android phone.
I can go on, but I'm already boring myself. Just get eM Client. You won't regret it. (No, I don't work for eM Client nor BitsDuJour.)

Gr3gwUnlike Microsoft, eM Client is a small company and much more responsive to customers' requests. I'm gambling on influencing eM Client through requests and suggestions. I'm currently asking for improvements in rules and think I have a small chance of succeeding whereas dealing with MS is would be totally futile.

Nigel Blumenthal@Jaroslav Javornicky
Good to see that an update will be coming along in a few weeks. For those of us who have been eMClient users for some time, how will that update be priced? Would it be better to buy another licence today and go with a free upgrade, or will the upgrade from an existing v5 licence be cheaper than that?

Also, in response to Neil Sherman's comment, every account has a checkbox allowing the user to include that account (or not) in automated pickup/sending of emails. Presumably all you would need to do would be to uncheck that box, and eMClient would not try to pick up from that deleted account.

Finally, for Jaroslav: I have a particular issue with contacts. We keep a number of contact lists, and some contacts are included on multiple lists. If a contact changes his/her address, we have to find every list that includes that contact and change his address manually on that list. Is it going to be possible to have a list effectively being a series of pointers to contact records, rather than a duplicated list of contact records? This would eliminate my problem...

Karl Valentin@Neil Sherman
quote: " My only other complaint with it is if you keep a local copy of email and subsequently discontinue an email account, there is no way to see the old emails without having eM client keep trying to get new mail and giving error messages. You can disable the account but then the emails become invisible."

Neil ShermanThanks Karl, if I recall correctly (which possibly I may not), even with that box unchecked it still makes an initial connection when opening eM Client and gives an error message. Maybe that's been fixed now.

Karl Valentin@Neil Sherman
I hope it worked for you now, I use this setting for a newsletter account, which I only call up once a week when I have time to read through all the mails that accumulated during the week. On my system this setting works fine.

@_*_ You are welcome

@Robert Conley
Please read the first posting of this Comments, written by myself.

Karl Valentin@Robert Conley
If you want to make the purchase with the BDJ offer, just click "Buy Now" button, then select the check-box that offers free lifetime upgrades and which is situated below the field which allows you to select the quantity of licenses to purchase.

The upgrade from FREE to PRO will be discounted on USD 24.95 and the lifetime upgrades will cost you an additional USD 50.00 so it would be a Total of USD 75.95

Karl Valentin@ all that are interested in the 60% off Cloudswave-discount, it seems that they already sold all lifetime upgrade licenses. There are still 21 single user licenses left at $20.- but without lifetime upgrade.

Gr3gwChris, I've just checked and it's working for me - sorry I can't give you the UTC time. The url I used is http://www.emclient.com/. This is the general website. Was the problem with eM Client or BitsDuJour?

Tom ColvinI've been using this program for about a year now and really like it. I like it so much, in fact, that I put up with some major irritations.

For some reason, the program every fifteen minutes or so calls for username/password verification for the various accounts I have in eM Client, which freezes everything until I delete this series of boxes. I also get an "error message," that I delete as well. And several times a day, I get a message that my account has a problem connecting to the server -- which I can fix by going through a built-in diagnostic routine, which always reports that my connections are all just fine. If I can put up with those inconveniences in order to use this as my major email client, it must be good.

I am guessing that these inconveniences may be due to some password changes that were forced upon my by Gmail months after setting up eM Client.

@ Nigel - yes, that is possible to buy an upgrade on newer version, the cost is $19.95 and the link (where v5 is now but once the v6 is released there will be v6 instead) is: http://www.emclient.com/renew-license For the issue with contact list, please get in touch with our support (via eM Client cliclikng on Help - Get support) and they will be able to advice you if that is just a matter of setup or bug. Sorry about that.

@ Robert - if you want to buy them separately than please see the post for Chris, if you want to buy them with a license than when you click here on BDJ on the offer, it'll take you to a site where is a check box for this right bellow the number of licenses you wish to buy.

@ Chris Roy - we are not aware of our site being down nor any of our data shows that so the problem was very likely somewhere else than on our sites.

@ Tom - Please get in touch with our support (just click in eM Client on Help - Get support) and one of our support guys will help you with your issue. Sorry about any incovenience caused.

Chris Roy JacksonI'm not sure what the problem is... I can go to MANY other websites with NO Problem.
I THOUGHT that it might be a problem because of my "Virtual Tunnel", so I tried dis-abling it with the same result. It APPEARS to be the Website as I get the same results with http://www.emclient.com/ and
http://www.emclient.com/download (for the Trial download.

I REALLY wanted to try it to see if it will meet my needs.
Any help? I'm not sure what to do next !

The entire error message follows:

502 - Web server received an invalid response while acting as a gateway or proxy server.

There is a problem with the page you are looking for, and it cannot be displayed. When the Web server (while acting as a gateway or proxy) contacted the upstream content server, it received an invalid response from the content server.

Jaroslav JavornickyHi, if I understand correctly what you intend to do, than you can save the contact by right-clicking not in the email list but in the actual email on the address of the sender.

It can work offline no problem. It just needs to connect with our system at least once a month or otherwise it will go into the offline mode, which is a situation which is very rare and happens only with a specific way of connecting your pc in local network.

Chris Roy Jackson@ Jaroslav Javornicky
You said, "Hi Chris, this seems like a problem on your end where you're behind a proxy server which is blocking the URL. "

That's what I thought, which is why I tried WITHOUT the Proxy Server with the same results. Since others appear to be accessing your site with no problems, I thought it MIGHT be a problem on my end, but I thought someone might have a suggestion as I have run out of Ideas (after all I can access any OTHER Website!!!)

I really do appreciate the work of the BDJ-team but the idea of this site is to safe on software.
So I want to inform everybody that Cloudswave.com has licenses with reduced lifetime upgrades again.
So I post the link to the Single-user license + Lifetime Upgrades for $40.- again:

@BDJ_Roger Thomasson - I want to assure you that I am not related to Cloudswave by any means and I only want to share the great opportunity for people with little budget to get this great software at 60% off.

LitoUmm seriously, I can't change the default install directory? I just grabbed the trial to test out, and the installer has no options to install it elsewhere? This is a major design flaw IMHO. I uninstalled it in less than a minute. It's 2013 already, many people have more than 1 HD, and some like to keep their speedy SSDs clean of stuff that doesn't need to be loading fast.